Read through this https://wiki.dbzer0.com/piracy/megathread/

Once you find a torrent, it will almost certainly include installation instructions, make sure you follow them.

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They removed that a long time ago, for a reason

To be fair it’s the band-aid of AI. The people that do want to use AI are using chatgpt. It works about as well as an LLM will right now and it basically sucks you off while it does it, so people like using it.

Copilot is chatGPT thrown into Microsoft apps and Gemini sucks, forcefully replaced the assistant app, and automatically comes up on Google searches with nonsense seemingly half the time.

(When I do use an LLM i use deepseek, but I recognize that I’m probably the minority in that)

It’s there and it’s pretty bad

Yeah, plex handles all that nonsense on their end. That’s why before their recent shenanigans they were a great option.

There’s a few ways, but it’s similar to hosting anything yourself. You could, if you’re not too bothered by it, just forward the port that jellyfin is using. You do this in your routers settings and you can see/change the port in jellyfins settings. Then you give your friends the device that’s hosting jellyfin’s ip address and they type it in when logging into the app. That’s simple and quick and not secure at all. But it’s really one of those things that 99 times out of 100 it’s fine.

You can use something like tailscale to connect your friends devices to your network, I didn’t do it so I don’t really know the details, but you’d need it installed on all of their clients. This is (probably) the most secure way but it’s a pain in the butt for users, compared to other ways. https://jellyfin.org/docs/general/post-install/networking/tailscale/

I ended up using nginx as a reverse proxy, and bought a domain name so I could just tell people “go into jellyfin wherever you want and type in domain.com, then pick the profile I made you.” I was really new to this nginx thing when I did it, so I don’t have a deep understanding of why it’s better than just forwarding the port but it is.

I ended up using tiny media manager to move and rename all of my files. Fixes that issue.

And those fridges show ads now

It’s true. You run one single command in cmd, then follow the prompts. It literally highlights what you probably want too, nevermind the guide online. Even Linux mint you still have to learn where stuff is and what it’s called. That’s not hard, by any means, but this is literally a single command and then you’re back to your routine.

THIS Microsoft? I wouldn’t touch it if they did.

Rapidseedbox. It’s 8 or 9 USD a month for their “swift” plan which is 1TB and it’s a shared network. For some reason sftp transfer speed went to shit, but i switched to FTPs and it seems to be back to about 20MB/s per transfer according to filezilla.

I say 8 or 9 because it says I should be paying 9 but they’ve still been charging me 8.

Walmart brand Google TV, slightly cheaper than Google branded Google TV.

No no, the opposite. I’m already using a paid seedbox service at this point, so that’s not a priority for me anymore.

Mullvad now, something else before.

I gave up doing it myself. I pay $8 USD a month for a seedbox and call it a day. Mainly, my VPN when I made the decision and the one I use now don’t port forward, and I’m not seeding this stuff just naked like that.

So I bought it from giztop, they take the Chinese version of the phone, get the Google play store on there and get it set to English, plus a couple other things, so that it’s easier for you to get started with. I bought this because I had thought they’d make a global version and I could flash that rom when that happened, and only deal with some Chinese sections of the phone for a short while, but for some reason they didn’t with this specific phone, they did for the 14 ultra.

I busted the phone out again to see the popup I was talking about, but actually one of the (semi) recent updates made it so the buttons are english. I am allowed to just install things with a few pop-up warnings and the phone does some kind of check. I wonder if it’s because it’s an “unlocked” phone (I don’t know if it’s the same in China where a carrier locks the phone to their network and has their own shit installed if you buy it from them) or what.

Either way, interesting.

I have a Xiaomi 14 pro, I just have to tap the correct button to install an outside app. (It’s in Chinese, even though the phone is set to English, so i have no idea what it says but it gets me there).

It also becomes no different than iPhone, so… what’s keeping me to android if they do this? Or hey, maybe I’ll commit to de-googling. I have CoMaps, I’m planning to setup nextcloud soon… Hell, I don’t even buy anything on Google play anymore since it’s so shit, i have no purchases tying me to the OS. Maybe I’ll buy a cheap old iPhone so I can finally use imessage with everyone that’s been bitching about me and use other tech for everything else.

(I’m not going to iPhone, but the point stands)

I setup a tdarr server/node today, it automatically sets up videos to be transcoded. I’m using it so my mini pc hosting jellyfin doesn’t have to. This means the videos should direct play, saving significant resources on the mini pc. That should allow me a handful of streams at the same time if it happens.

I put the node on my main desktop pc with a GPU, so when my server sees new videos land in my jellyfin folder it should have the windows pc grab the video, transcode it over on it’s own ssd, then replace the original video on the server.